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"I started writing about two months after we got back from Nashville. I felt like Nashville was a little distressing at times, because I just didn’t have the motivation to start writing over there."

"Most footballers are wannabe rock stars, and it’s the other way around as well."

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"It’s really flattering to see people coming back to gigs. I’m very fortunate that I get to meet most people who come back."

"I guess when I’m not [making music], I’m not exactly miserable but I’m definitely uncomfortable."

"Touring with The Kooks a couple of months ago, that was insane ‘cause their first album was one of the first records I really obsessed about in high school."

"The attitude I had wasn’t to focus on the end product but to not plan, to be open to things."

"So we were thinking let’s make an album that’s based on the sounds of The Dangerous Summer."

“When your full-time job is a muso, and a touring muso, and you travel from city to city and spend nine hours in a van or longer – you day ends up revolving around a 45-minute set.”

"We’re writing a lot differently. It’s not so much a rock record; it’s not your traditional set-up. We’re experimenting a lot more and that’s a different direction for us.”

"There wasn’t really a specific thing that we wanted to achieve [with Holy Fire], so that in itself is quite a pleasure, going into writing and recording because you have that clean slate again – we really enjoyed writing it."

"We’ve been together five months, got 35, 40 shows under our belts, and it’s pretty cool, man."